moved list_uniq to the extlib

[helm.git] / helm / matita / matitaMisc.ml

diff --git a/helm/matita/matitaMisc.ml b/helm/matita/matitaMisc.ml
index 9c0c7db33338f6a40e8bc2267d96d43324027c81..8f97b25a9384b9f77f8ec1b7f0aab49893f7526d 100644 (file)
--- a/helm/matita/matitaMisc.ml
+++ b/helm/matita/matitaMisc.ml
@@ -80,6 +80,28 @@ let is_empty buri =
 
 let safe_remove fname = if Sys.file_exists fname then Sys.remove fname
 
+let is_dir_empty d =
+  try 
+    let od = Unix.opendir d in
+    try 
+      ignore (Unix.readdir od);
+      ignore (Unix.readdir od);
+      ignore (Unix.readdir od);
+      Unix.closedir od;
+      false
+    with End_of_file -> 
+      Unix.closedir od;
+      true
+  with Unix.Unix_error _ -> true
+
+let safe_rmdir d = try Unix.rmdir d with Unix.Unix_error _ -> ()
+
+let rec rmdir_descend d = 
+  if is_dir_empty d then
+    begin
+      safe_rmdir d;
+      rmdir_descend (Filename.dirname d)
+    end
 
 let absolute_path file =
   if file.[0] = '/' then file else Unix.getcwd () ^ "/" ^ file
@@ -239,12 +261,6 @@ let obj_file_of_script f =
   let baseuri = baseuri_of_file f in
    obj_file_of_baseuri baseuri
 
-let rec list_uniq = function 
-  | [] -> []
-  | h::[] -> [h]
-  | h1::h2::tl when h1 = h2 -> list_uniq (h2 :: tl) 
-  | h1::tl (* when h1 <> h2 *) -> h1 :: list_uniq tl
-
 let list_tl_at ?(equality=(==)) e l =
   let rec aux =
     function